Sights and Sounds from the Spatial Audio Gathering

The two-day Spatial Audio Gathering was held at DMU on 17-18 June, organised by the Midlands4Cities doctoral cohort and supported by the M4C Doctoral Training Partnership, which is funded by The Arts and Humanities Research Council.

The event was led and programmed by M4C students Stefano Catena (DMU) and Teddy Hunter (University of Birmingham) with Ian Corkhill (DMU) and Enrico Dorigatti (University of Portsmouth).

The event hosted 29 spatial audio and audiovisual works, six papers with a round table discussion and keynote talks by five leading composers working with spatial music: Annie Mahtani (University of Birmingham), Simon Emmerson (DMU), Brona Martin (University of Greenwich) and Henrik Frisk (Kungliga Musikhögskolan, Stockholm) and Nikos Stavropoulos (Leeds Beckett University).

Participants listen to the IKO 3D audio speaker

Dr Annie Mahtani's keynote talk

Simon Emmerson Keynote - Imagining space and place through sound and music

Tim Cooper: Labyrinth (Lucia Capellaro, baroque cello)

Cameron Naylor: Here One Moment

Wei Yang: ... couloirs (binaural)

New Article from Prof. John Young

John Young's new article 'Scaling Form' is now available in the latest issue (vol. 18, 2024) of the Firenze University Press journal Musica/Tecnologia.  The journal is open access. 

John's article investigates relationships between composers' sound materials and the duration or timescale over which a form is shaped in acousmatic music.  The article includes analyses of works by Francis Dhomont, Denis Smalley, Natasha Barrett and Gilles Gobeil, among others.  Other contributors to the issue are Lelio Camilleri (editor), Annette Vande Gorne and Daniel Teruggi.

Stefano Catena at ICMC 2024 in Seoul

Stefano Catena's piece Travelling without Moving has been selected for performance at the 2024 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 'Sound in Motion' and will be performed in Seoul the 10^th of July in the Listening Programme B. 

More information on the conference website https://www.icmc2024.org/schedule-programs

 

Paiknam Concert Hall, Hanyang University: Venue of the 2024 ICMC, Seoul

John Young and Simon Perril @ States of Independence 2024

Profs. John Young and Simon Perril will give a talk and present their immersive audio installation Sun Set Deck Cogitation at the annual States of Independence festival of creative writing on 8 June, 10am-4pm in the DMU Clephan Building.

States of Independence brings together publishers and writers for a one-day festival of talks, performances and book stalls.  The keynote speaker this year is Louise Doughty.

Sun Set Deck Cogitation can be heard throughout the day in PACE Studio 1, and the presentation will also celebrate the launch of Perril's Two Duets with Occasion which includes the poetry used in the installation.

The programme for the day can be found here, and admission is free.